Health Anxiety

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Does anyone else here suffer from anxiety over health?

Recently someone told me their 18 year old sister got a blood clot, and ever since I've been terrified about myself. This happened a few months ago... I had chest pains and pains in my left arm from it, which made me worry more. Now they're back. Fighting with irrational anxiety is really tough sometimes. I hate the impact anxiety can have on your body. I have my first AS appointment on 4th April. I'm going to bring it up because I can't keep having repeat episodes of this.

Share your experiences.

Well I have never had chest pains and that. Had my heart beating in my neck & what would be called tightening of chest? I think stopping stressing about a blood clot would help.

Once it was just cramp in the arm, sitting or laying in one position for too long.

But I guess it is best to probably get it checked out anyway. Do you know what the girls health was like though?

Don't know yet. Eager to find out. She has a few medical problems, like epilepsy, and she takes meds for that and such. Maybe they come with those risks. I think once I find out I'll feel better (hopefully) It's just I've always been a worrier and anxious about heart-related stuff. No idea why. Last time I got anxiety from it it lasted a while, but then went away. Surely if I had a heart problem it wouldn't have gone away at all. And the doctor checked my pulse and said it was fine. I think it's just my body responding to anxiety every time I worry about something.

Since developing seizures and getting side effects from medication I've begun to worry about my health a lot. Then it turns into an irrational fear of dying from every slight ailment.

I'm more aware of body aches and pains now and any changes on my body. Have a few unexplained painless lumps on my neck. Tooth decay from my medication too.

Nope, I have too many health problems to be worrying about potential ones.

My biggest health problem is probably the fact that I don't concern myself enough with it, with the exception that I eat pretty healthy.

No that's wrong. There's no "probably" about it.

I selecte ''occasionally'' because it's not something I worry about excessively (otherwise I WILL be in an early grave!) but occasionally I worry about it. I am terrified to feel my breasts because I heard breast cancer is so common, somebody said that everybody you know knows at least one person who had breast cancer, and it is true. I know two people who had it, my friend knows somebody who died from it, my other friend knows somebody else who is recovering, my mum knows someone who had it.....well you get the idea. So everyone, or a lot of people, knows at least one person who has had breast cancer. So it is fairly common.

I have extreme health anxiety. I'm not sure when it started, but it really grew out of control when I developed costochondritis at age 21. The doctors, at first, couldn't figure out what it was. I suffered for well over a year and developed major panic attacks whenever I had to leave the house. I was terrified of the symptoms. I had to have my mom talk me down and often just sit on the toilet and breathe to calm myself.

After this incident I noticed I start to freak out over any minor ailment. The past few weeks I suddenly decided I am at risk of skin cancer. I've been checking every mole on my body and comparing them to pictures on the internet. I think I know far too much now about the 3 types of skin cancer. I have to go to the dermatologist tomorrow and I am trying not to think about it so much.

All of this is rather ironic because medicine and medical information has always been a special interest of mine. Yet I have hypochondria and the more I research the more anxiety I have

I have a lot of anxiety about my health and my having no money or insurance and no access to health care other than visiting the emergency room doesn't help any.

Sometime around the late 90s, I started getting a series of unexplainable (to me at the time) symptoms causing all kinds of problems like chest pain that caused panic attacks. Sensory overload contributed to this as well. I received treatment briefly for it, and things were fine until 2002, when it came back with a vengeance. I managed to get it mostly under control (as in, 2-3 ER trips a year due to health anxiety) until I was finally diagnosed with fibromyalgia, which explains a lot of the stuff I was worried about. I am don't really have it much these days, though.

Health is the one area of my life that I never experience Anxiety with.

I'm pretty much a fitness fanatic and I have always enjoyed a fit and healthy lifestyle.

In relation to most other things, I experience considerable anxiety on a regular basis, now managed with medication and getting much better

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